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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...education provision and rising poverty and inequality. The benefits of revenue and rents fail to trickle down to the majority of citizens. Yet, the continent abounds with natural resources and more are being found all of the time, which is why nations like China are increasingly looking to Africa to secure new supplies. According to Vines (2014): ‘Six of the top 10...
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...Educational Supplement) ar-lein ynghylch y 'bwlch darllen' mewn ysgolion cynradd ac yna atebwch y cwestiynau sy'n dilyn. Ymgyrch i ddod â'r bwlch darllen 'gwarthus' mewn ysgolion cynradd i ben Ffigur 2 Plentyn yn darllen llyfr Bydd tua 1.5 miliwn o blant yn y DU yn gadael yr ysgol gynradd yn cael trafferth darllen erbyn 2025 oni chymerir camau gweithredu brys, yn ôl...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: Introduction - Janet Sumner is your guide through this course. She is a Media Fellow at The Open University with a specialist interest in volcanoes. Janet will appear at the start of each week to tip you off about the highlights and challenges, to remind you what...
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...Education (PE) teacher – offers a unique opportunity to understand a carer’s relationship with physical activity. Activity 6 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes. Listen to Audio 3 in which Martin discusses how his relationship with physical activity changed once he became a carer to his mum. Does Martin’s experience resonate with you? DR NICHOLA KENTZER: Martin,...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (Bassi & Kettunen, 2008). In the end, the 2007 fires burned right around the edges of the site. None of the ancient ruins were burnt. However, the surrounding landscape and even the culturally significant Kronios Hill, which forms part of the site, were severely affected. The two images below...
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...educated to this business … nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it … could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...educated at Eton) saw himself as a democratic socialist, but never a communist. Socialism Socialism as an ideology emerged in the West during the early 19th century as a reaction to the economic and social inequalities generated by industrial capitalism. A core aim of socialism is to advance the interests of the working classes by promoting social and economic equality....
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...de-Christianisation of 1793–4 – as showing where such tolerance of ‘infidelity’ can lead. Significantly, though, his horror is not (unlike Burke’s) directed at the Revolution as such, but rather at this particular phase in its development. Indeed, in the footnote he implies that he does not see the Revolution itself as either a consequence or a cause of moral...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs